ISLAMABAD: Sufi Night Fundraising Gala Dinners featuring Sanam Marvi would be held from January 10 at Sialkot, Islamabad and Lahore in support of Pakistan’s third Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre being built in Karachi.
First Sufi Night Fundraising gala dinner would be held at Sialkot on January 10 where Sanam Marvi would perform at Heritage Club.
The Sufi Night would also entertain people of federal capital at local hotel on January 19 and on January 26 at Lahore.
Sanam Marvi is a sufi and folk singer her background is related to folk singing. She made her live concert singing. Marvi performed sufi concerts around the world.
She sung in different languages Urdu, Punjabi. Marvi started getting music training at the age of 7. She is from a Sindhi Family.
Her step-father, Faqeer Ghulam Rasool, was also a Sindhi folk singer. Her initial classical music training, for 2 years, was from Ustad Fateh Ali Khan of Hyderabad, Sindh in the Gwalior Gharana tradition.
She has also learned a lot from folk singer Abida Parveen. Sanam Marvi debuted, in 2009, at ‘Virsa Heritage’, a music programme on PTV.
